Maciej Stachowiak [mailto:mjs@apple.com] wrote:
>I think it would be pretty poor if some indicator of the document
>version (e.g. the doctype or as suggested by someone else a version
>parameter in the Content-Type header) changed the default charset.
As much as I'm well documented in favor of having a versioned doctype, I agree that changing the default charset from its current de facto Win1252 value would be a bad idea, largely for the gradual adoption desire that Maciej mentioned.
-Chris